In the words of the great Monty Python team “is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?”

As anyone got any aspirins??

Anyways. I've had my say. Some people agree, some people disagree.

To summarise my standpoint:
To be counted in the attendance, you should actually have to be in attendance.

Using the attendance of one event to mean the same as the attendance at both games is incorrect because people leave before or arrive after certain games and are therefore not always in attendances (see above).

Aggregating your attendance at one event to being the same as two games and summing it up with events with only one game is a completely and utterly flawed methodology and proves nothing so it shouldn't be done. Yes you are technically in attendance at two games, but it is not a like-for-like comparison. If you want to do this, it is even more pointless to pretend that the number of people in overall attendance of an event is the same as for each game, therefore making an even greater statistically incorrect statement.

I'll let someone else have a go!

(As for those complaining about this thread, it's not hard to avoid it, just like I avoid as many of the threads continually whinging about Nigel Wood and the RFL!)

I've tried to explain that you cannot use the total attendance for a double header twice as the individual attendance for each game. I've also explained that you can't halve this figure and use it twice, either.

Again using Magic as a comparison. If you are working out the total average attendance of a full SL campaign, using Smokey's method this would add 210,000 to the cumulative total, when in reality it is 60k.

It is the same with this, if you take the 45k twice and say Wembley will get 75k, the total attendance figures would be inflated by 120k. The only fair way to average out this tournament is to take the total attendance from the 26 events and divide it by 26. This is the true average. It is not saying that 2 games did not occur, just that 4 games took place at 2 events.

I know people won't agree, but using any other method scews the final figures.

It doesn't skew anything it's the only way to do it.

What does your clubs attendances for last year include from the magic weekend?

The Leeds Wigan game has 31234 as the attendance.

It seems to me that people are confusing two different issues, Ticket Sales and Match Attendance. Due to double headers and some people not watching both matches it is not possible to say with any confidence how many people who had a ticket and entered the Millenium Stadium actually watched each match. What is know is that the organisers were prepared to allow 45022 people to watch each match. That is the official attendance for each match. The fact it was the same people is irrelevant for the aggregate attendance.

What really is far more important is revenue generated for the entire tournament, due to the large number of discounts available that may not be as impressive as aggregate attendances would suggest.

How on earth did this thread get to 12 page, wtf is the problem here

How?

lol

This thread is like the Truman show

What was the attendance for the Wales Italy game?